Five-Minute fiction - 22:38-22:43
No one was really sure when the first Tick-Tock was made. No one was even sure where the idea came from. It is true that the use of clockwork mechanisms had begun to slowly to spread throughout the City. First here, then there. Until it seemed almost every industry made use of them. Perhaps, then, Tick-Tocks were the next logical step. And it quite possible that the idea of an army of unstoppable brass and iron men crushing ones foes underfoot crossed the minds of enough people that they began to push for the things to be made.
However, the development of the Tick-Tocks was a slow process. It is easy to construct a body of brass and steel. To make the limbs work, to even make it speak. All these things are trivial when compared to the act of making the Tick-Tock thing. But magick (note the K, denoting that this is the ancient, more serious type of magic) was unpopular in the City, and had been for quite sometime, and even those practioners
No one was really sure when the first Tick-Tock was made. No one was even sure where the idea came from. It is true that the use of clockwork mechanisms had begun to slowly to spread throughout the City. First here, then there. Until it seemed almost every industry made use of them. Perhaps, then, Tick-Tocks were the next logical step. And it quite possible that the idea of an army of unstoppable brass and iron men crushing ones foes underfoot crossed the minds of enough people that they began to push for the things to be made.
However, the development of the Tick-Tocks was a slow process. It is easy to construct a body of brass and steel. To make the limbs work, to even make it speak. All these things are trivial when compared to the act of making the Tick-Tock thing. But magick (note the K, denoting that this is the ancient, more serious type of magic) was unpopular in the City, and had been for quite sometime, and even those practioners